Mary Stiner

Mary C. Stiner is a Regents' Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and Curator of Zooarchaeology at the Arizona State Museum, known for her research on early hominid death rituals, Paleolithic archaeology, and the transition from hunter-gatherer to village economies. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 1990 and has excavated sites across Italy, Israel, Greece, Turkey, Portugal, France, and the US. Stiner is a highly cited archaeologist whose work includes studies on Neanderthal behavior, the origins of modern humans, and animal domestication.